1 | This can be observed most clearly with Horace and Sophocles. | |
2 | Yes, history is tragic, as Aeschylus and Sophocles knew. | |
3 | In Sophoclean tragedy the city is also the focus for the hero's problematical relation to civilized values. | |
4 | Or play the innocent and wait for it to drop from heaven. After all, the Athens of Sophocles was never the same as the city of Antigone. | |
5 | One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. |